Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode. Today we are going to talk all about the greatest

off-ball players in NBA history. I guess not history. I guess we'll we'll keep it to

the three-point era and I'll caveat why in a little bit when we set up the

criteria and then get into the names.

But boy, I don't know what I've got myself into here.

The last video I did for the Thinking Basketball YouTube channel

was a video I've wanted to do for a long time.

It was on player movement and sort of the power of motion and off-ball activity and all the

counters that go into that. And in researching that I just basically realized I'm down a rabbit hole and the rabbit hole was looking at all these great

off-ball players because of course that video focuses on movement but there is a

relationship that exists between movement and

shooting and the threat of running away from the basket to catch the ball

when you're open and how dangerous you are as a shooter.

There's also concepts of off-ball value

that weren't really touched in that video at all,

like your spot-up shooting,

that gravity or spacing effect that can come with that.

How about running to the rim, etc, etc?

So there's a larger world here around off-ball value on offense and that's what I wanted to

discuss today, get into and because this is at least for me this this level of detail around off ball success is

fertile ground there's a lot of fuzziness to sort out.

So watched a lot of film for this one.

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